What does 'retiring soon' @ Lego.com mean to you?

ApesInCapes · 2013-08-07T12:14:35.000Z

After reading a couple of interesting posts I thought I would toss my own thoughts on what the Lego.com retiring soon moniker means to me. To me this is definitely going to be the bane of the secondary market in time. It indicates to everyone interested in Lego that their time is nearly up to purchase particular sets. It also indicates to resellers that the time to buy is now. I'm sure there will be the usual procrastinators inside of there yet, but I think overall less. I think that for every one person who buys one knowing that a set will soon be retired there will be another reseller buying two of them to hopefully sell to the person that missed that time window. If Lego stays on top of and consistent with their labeling of sets 'retiring soon' it will definitely start to take the steam out of the secondary market and make buying and holding a regular occurrence with the majority of sets. (this is not meant to be a bubble thread) I apologize in advance if it somehow evolves into that or an ethical debate. Overall this doesn't bother me, just one of those things I've given a moments thought to.